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when brutal pogroms were routine, Shestov must have found Christian preaching of love meaningless and empty. One more point. To me, .Shestov's kidnapping by an underground po- litical organization when he was fifteen and his father's refusal to pay the ransom indicate a fa- ther-son conflict of truly extraordinary dimensions. 'After six months captivity Lev was released, shaken by his father's obstinacy.' (p. 3) Reputedly, Lev was associated with the revolutionaries. I find it incredible that a father refuse to save his child unless, of course, he knew that the kid- napping was a hoax. If it was, the incident speaks vol umes about a son who would subject his parents to such anxiety. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Fordham University Ronald E. Peterson. A History of Russian Symbolism. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Ben- jamins, 1993. xiv, 254 pp. $79.00. The aim of this book by the late Ronald Peterson is to fill a serious gap in the secondary lit- erature on Russian Symbolism by providing a narrative reference work covering the whole of the movement,. its ten chapters include an introduction establishing the outlines of the move- ment, an epilogue which summarizes the fortunes of its adherents after the
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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